US Edition'Absolute Hell Hole': Private Prisons Set to House ICE Detainees Bring New Set of Problems
FLORIDA EVERGLADES, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES, JUL 1 – The facility, costing $450 million annually, is built to hold up to 5,000 migrants and aims to accelerate deportations amid ongoing protests and environmental concerns.
- On July 2, 2025, Alligator Alcatraz, a new migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, began accepting detainees.
- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis used emergency powers to authorize rapid construction of the facility to support expanded deportations.
- The compound includes tents, trailers, barbed wire, and 400 security staff, housing about 3,000 detainees with capacity for 5,000 future expansion.
- President Trump described the site as surrounded by "treacherous swampland" and said, "The only way out is, really, deportation," highlighting deterrence strategy.
- The detention center reflects intensified immigration enforcement but faces criticism and lawsuits from civil rights and environmental groups.
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Miami clergy raise concerns as Trump tours Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz'
MIAMI (OSV News) — Most Americans agree on the need for good U.S. border security, but to hear politicians and civil authorities hurl insults and jokes at the expense of migrants as Florida opened its new “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades “is sinful.” That is the view of Spain-born Father Federico Capdepón, a retired priest of the Miami Archdiocese and one of several local clergy who have been accompanying m…
Alligator Alcatraz: A Bold Step Toward Secure Borders - The Thinking Conservative
Alligator Alcatraz funded through FEMA, represents a decisive move by the Trump admin to address illegal immigration with efficiency and resolve. The post Alligator Alcatraz: A Bold Step Toward Secure Borders appeared first on The Thinking Conservative.
The United States maintains the largest immigration detention system in the world, where thousands of people—both those who have resided in the country for years and those who have recently fled violence or poverty—are arrested and detained under conditions that have been denounced by humanitarian agencies as “infrahuman” and “negligent.” READ ALSO: They report that “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant prison evidences racism and supremacism from the Un…
The Left Wants To Open The Prisons As Part Of Traveling The Road To Chaos
Defund the police, abolish ICE, "due process," no human is illegal, outreach over incarceration…yada, Dada, yada.The Democrats oughta just be honest, they don’t want anyone locked up.Whether it’s Lefties bitching about Alligator Alcatraz or that communist Mamdani squawking about replacing the NYPD with social workers and outreach, our old favorite Kamala Harris and her world salad about "re-examining" ICE and starting from scratch, or their pass…
New ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ for migrants called a ‘sinful initiative’
MIAMI (OSV News) — Most Americans agree on the need for good U.S. border security, but to hear politicians and civil authorities hurl insults and jokes at the expense of migrants as Florida opened its new “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades “is sinful.” That is the view of Spain-born Father Federico Capdepón, a retired priest of the Miami Archdiocese and one of several local clergy who have been accompanying m…
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Alligator Alcatraz opened ready for a hurricane – but not a summer shower
Alligator Alcatraz opened Tuesday without a water view. Then it rained.
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